English
sitient
Sitient comes from Latin sitiēns ‘thirsting, thirsty’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsitiēns‘thirsting, thirsty’
- Englishearliest quotation 1685sitient
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsitiēns‘thirsting, thirsty’
- Englishearliest quotation 1685sitient
Earliest quotation: 1685, Samuel Collins, Of the Serous Ferment of the Stomach: “So that (as I apprehend) theſe Famelick, Eſurient, and…”
Every English word from Latin sitiēns
Today it means
adj Thirsty.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sitiēns / sitient